Jonathan Edwards on Christian Love

Charity and Its Fruits: Christian Love as Manifested in the Heart and Life

1 Corinthians 13:4 Love Disposes to Bear Injuries

1 Corinthians 13:4 Love Disposes to Do Good

1 Corinthians 13:4 Love Inconsistent with Evil

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 Spirit of Love is Humble

1 Corinthians 13:5 Spirit of Love Opposite Selfish

1 Corinthians 13:5 Spirit of Love Opposite Angry

1 Corinthians 13:5 Love Opposite of Censorious

1 Corinthians 13:6 All True Grace in the Heart

1 Corinthians 13:7 Love Willing to Suffer

1 Corinthians 13:7 All the Graces of Christianity

1 Corinthians 13:7 Love Not to be Overthrown

The Great Awakening, 1758

It is love that arises from an apprehension of the wonderful riches of free grace and sovereignty of God's love to us in Christ Jesus.

A Treatise on Religious Affections, 1754

A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable and full of glory, is a humble broken-hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit, and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behaviour.

F.B. Meyer

Impart unto me, O God, I pray Thee, the spirit of Thy Love, that I may be more anxious to give than to receive, more eager to understand than to be understood, more thoughtful for others, more forgetful of myself.